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COOKING STOVKS,
OF THE NEATEST AND MOST SUPERIOR PATTERN.
IO "ST 33 38. Xj tt,
Springs' Building, Charlotte, N. C,
Has for f-ale "Spear's fnli-I)ufst Coohing
STOWESJ' which, for every variety of cooking
and great economy-io fuel, cannot be surpassed by
any Stove heretofore used.
Everybody who has used one of these Stoves
testify that, for convenience in cooking, durability
and cleanliness, they are far preferable to all other
patterns. Call and see them.
D. H. BYERLY has also on hand a good as
sortment of Tin, Jajtan and Sheet-lion Ware such
articles as are necessary for house-keeping.
"CSy TIN-WARE made to order at ihort notice
On reasonable terms.
jOQjr RCPAIKIXG promptly executed.
D II. BYERLY,
Springs' Building, Charlotte, N. C.
March 25, 1807.
Millinery and Ladies Fancy Goods
MRS. E FLJLLINGS is oHVring her Stock of Bon
nets, Iliils, Ribbons, Feathers, &c, at greatly reduced
prices. Ladies arc invited to call and examine these
Goods and hear pliers.
Dec 10, 18GG.
.Ins I llcecivcd.
Al KOOPMANN'S STORE, a fine lot of D. R. Leak's
celebrated CHEWING TOBACCO, from the highest
to the lowest grade.
Also, a large lot of LORILL ARD'S SCOTCH
SNUFF, in small bladders aud packages.
The trade supplied.
March 4, 18G7.
JUST RECEIVED AT
C. M. QUERY'S NEW STORE,
A large and well selected Stock of
spriivg; and u.iiirit goods.
DRY GOODS, at extremely low prices.
WHITE GOODS, a fuM assortment, which will be
Bold low for rash.
TRIMMINGS Our stock of Trimmings is com
plete, and was Svlected with care.
A full assortment of YANKEE NOTIONS and
FANCY GOODS.
HOOP SKIRTS Bradley's Paris Trail Skirts
the most popular Skirt now worn all sizes Ladies,
children ami Misses.
KID GLOVES all colors and sizes, of the best
article. Ladies" aud Children's Mitts, all sizes, and
of the best quality.
FANS AND PARASOLS A full assortment of
all kinds.
SHOES Ladies', ChMdren's and Misses' boots,
elioes and gaiters, of tlu best Philadelphia make.
Also, Men's aud Boy's shoes aud hats.
MRS. QUERY would inform her friends that
she has spared no pains in selecting her stock of
Millinery and Trimming: and having had a long
exn?i ieiue in the business tVels satisfied that she
can please all who will favor her with a call.
rt . iff..- . 1 ... 1 . 1 . i
nouneis auu nais mane ami imumeu to oruer, on
e most reasonable terms and shortest notice.
Drpscpa Cut. Fittoih Trimmed anil made, on reason
the
able term? and at short notice.
Our terms are strictly Cash. Our motto is. small
profit, and just dealing to all.
April I, 18'.7.
DY GOODS, CLOTHING,
BOOTS, SHOES, &c, &C
ZD . 3LTJM,
Respectfully informs the public that he has a large
stock of Dry Goods. Clothing. Boots and Shoes, in
great variety, wlrch he will sell on reasonable terms.
RAGS WANTED.
I want to purchase 200,000 pounds of clean cotton
and linen Rags. Highest cash price paid.
D. BLUM,
April 8, 1367 3m ' Opposite Court House.
J 111 Received,
In Store and will be sold wholesale or retail, Rio
and Laguayra Coffee, of superior quality: Sugar;
Imperial and Gunpowder Tea, best in market; Mo
lasses; Adamantine Candles, by the box; a prime
article of Carolina Rice, new crop; Bacon Sides;
Leaf Lard: Sucar cuip.t Hams- a fresh lot of Garden
Seed, just in time; Northern Potatoes, good rich !
1 wr i I' l T.ll .1. l-l
fiercer, rmK r.ye ana cuow ian; wie ceieurmeu
Parlor Match, by the box, dozen or gross; Durham's
Smoking Tobacco, by the pouud .or sack;. Cotton
Yarn; Chewing Tobacco; various qualities; Loril
lard Snuff, always on hand; 500 bushels prime
bread Corn: 300 bushels best Seed Oats; Pepper;
Spice; Ginger; Soda; Starch; Hemlock Leather, as
cheap as any; Brads; Steel Iloes; Chopping Axes;
Trace Chains; Scythe and Cmdle - Blades; Curry
Combs; Brushes; Coffee Mills; Rifle Powder; Blast
ing Powder; Shot and Caps; a line assortment of
JCails from the best factories in the United States, so
palled; Whim Rope; Well Rope; Men's Brogans,
with various other articles.
Remember my motto, quick sales, short proGls
and fair dealings.
Still at the old stand in Springs' building.
Look out for the Deer Skin and walk iu.
fisS- Terms CASH.
March 18, 18C7. BOYD.
Garden Seeds.
The largest and most complete Stock ever brought
io this market, from the celebrated Houses of
LANDRETII,
TIIORBURN and
BUIST.
For sale at
SCARR'S DRUG STORE.
Feb. 4,1807.
.cC-v-iJ'iKt Received;
A large lot of Provisions and Groceries, such fis
Corn, Flour, Bacon, Lard, Ae., and Sugar, Coffee, j
Molasses and Salt. Some fine Baltimore cured 1
Ham?. PRESSON k GRAY- '
April 8, iear. '
J8ST A horrible cafee of burying alive iu re
ported to have occurred in Jacksonville, Illinois.
A beautiful young lady of seventeen, engaged
to be married, was found in her bed one morn
ing to all appearances dead. Several physi
cians examined the body and pronounced her so.
She had taken chloroform for her teeth, and
there seemed no possible doubt that the dose
had been a fatal one. She was buried. A few
days since, her relatives, being about to remove
to another State, desired to take the remains
with them. They opened the coffin and were
horror stricken to find the corpse turned over,
both hands full of hair and the clothing torn to
shreds. Chloroform had placed her in a deep
trance from which she awuke to fiud herself in
her coffin and her grave.
A LA RGB STOCK
SJPRIJST gT GtO O 13 s
Fine white and colored Marseilles Quilts, just
received at BAIIRINGER, WOLFE & CO S.
Jggy- Ladies' French Dimitry Skirts, India Twilled
Long Cloth, Linen Dres3 Goods, Extra Fine Lace
Collars and Cuffs, Valencine Lace, Cleny Lace,
Black Silk Guper Lace. Call and examine our New
Goods.
BARRINGER, WOLFE & CO.
Irish Linen of an extra quality ; Bleached
Shirting, extra quality. Call soon.
Black Challey "for Mourning Dresses, English
Crape and English Crape Veils, at
BARRINGER, WOLFE & CO'S.
April 15, I8G7.
Special Notice to Ladies.
Fashionable Millinery & Dressmnkin
MISS BETS V WILLIAMS has opened a fashion
able Millinery and Dressmaking Establishment
located over
Wittkoweky & RittfcEs' Store.
She invites the attention of the Ladies to the
above, fetling assured1 that those giving her a call
can be suited both in style and price.
Alms E. It. WILLIAMS.
SPRIXG and SU.TLTiER GOODS
AT
WITTKOWSKY 6c RINTELS'
April 15, 1SG7.
Encourage Home Industry.
CANDY, CANDY PLAIN AND FANCY,
Wholesale and Retail at
DALLAS M . RIGLER'S,
OPPOSITE THE MANSION HOUSE.
Having secured the services of a No. 1 Candy
maker, I am prepared to furnish the trade at mode
rate prices with every description of
Plain and Faney Candy.
I also deal in Cakes, Canned Fruits, Segars, Toys
and Confectioneries generally.
April 15, 1867.
Wheel-Wright Shop.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public
that he has a shop on College street, in the rear of
Mr Cruse's residence, where he is prepared to do all
kinds of wood work in his line with neatness and
dispatch.
Particular attention paid to Repairing Wagons
and Buggies. - WILLIAM FOSTER.
Febll, 1SST tm
GrL O C E5 DF3L X JE3
Groceries! Groceries!!
I have in Store, and am receiving daily,
20 000 lbs. choice Bacon hams, shoulders and sides,
2,000 lbs. superior Leaf Lard,
20 barrels Mackerel Nos. 1, 2 and 3,
1 ,500 lbs. Con'ee, Rio and Java, a very choice article,
3.000 lbs Sugar allgrades,
1,500 galious Molasses Porto Rico, New Orleans,
and other grades,
Together with a well assorted Stock of
FANCY GROCERIES,
Consisting in part of
Pickles, Canned Oysters, Sardines,
Crackers, Genuine Havana Segars,
Tobacco, smoking and chewing; Lorillard Snuff,
Pepper, Spice, Soda, Starch, Soap, Candles,
Pure Cider Vinegar, Powder, Shot, Caps,
Sieves, Buckets, Brooms, Blacking, &c, &c,
With almost every article usually kept in a Family
Grocery, which I will sell low down for cash, whole
sale and retail, at my store, two doors below Brem,
Brown & Go's Hardware Stoic, and nearly opposite
the old Charlotte Hotel.
Give me a call ; all I ask is a fair trial.
March 25. 1867. A. II. TATE.
HUTCHISON, BURROUGHS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS OF THE
3QUI T
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Cash Capital 83,000,000.
Attentat Eticomc $,OGO,QOO.
The Policy Holder shares in the profits of the
Company. The CASH "dividend for 18G6 is Thirty
(30) per cent. Now is the time to secure a Policy
aud thereby make a sure and certain provision for
your family.
Call for Circulars and Policies.
ACCIDENTAL POLICIES, in the Travel
ler's Insurance Company of Hartford, issued.
F1RK Insurance Companies of known and indis
putable responsibility represented by us.
K. NTE UUTCBISOXi J. C.BURROUC US. R. A. PPIUXGS.
March 23, 1SG7
EDWARD FILLIXGS
Is now offering his fine Stock of
READY-MADE CLOTHING
Below New York cost. I am compelled to sacrifice
my Goods to raise funds. J'eiions desirous of ob
taining good Clothing at remaikably low figures,
will find it to their advantage to call before pur
chasing and be convinced.'
I am prepared to make np to order my superior
stock of Cloths and Cassimeres in the latest style,
and at greatly reduced prices: and to offer my fine
assortment of
liats aud Furnishing Goods
At and below cost.
N. B. All persons indebted, either by note or ac
count, to "Fuliings &l Oo.V "Fallings, Springs .t
Co.," or "Fuliings & Springs," will please come for
ward and settle. ' '
Row, one" door below the Southern Express Office,'
and directly opposite the Mansion House. '
January 21, 1667.
DRUNKENNESS AS A DISEASE.
' Methomania, or the mania for strong drink, is
a name recently given to that chronic 3tage of
habits of intoxication in which it is regarded as
a disease, and to be treated as such, rather than
as a vice. There are many cases that have been
and are successfully treated in this way, and can
be in no other. Dr. Albert Day, of the Wash
ington House, in New York, has cured a great
many drunkards, and his success ha3 been en
tirely owing to taking this view of the subject.
He has treated two thousand cases, and of these
four hundred were in the stage of delirium tre
mens; and he has written a work on the subject.
In England this sort of treatment is now being
resorted to, and with success. Drunkenness
may be and oron is a disease, and persons of
the highest natural and moral sensibilities are
often driven to desperation, despair, ruin, and
even suicide, by the consciousness of" their in
ability directly to master habits of intoxication,
which a skillful and conscientious physician
would best enable them to overcome. In some
cases there is a marked tendency to habits of
this sort transmitted hereditarily. Good tem
pered, sympathizing, moral nursing is what such
patients seem to want more than anything else.
Hospitals for such are being established in
several places in the United States. One was
in successful operation hi liinghamton, New
York, when the buildings were . unfortunately
destroyed by fire. In Philadelphia there .is an
association chartered by the Legislature for the
same purpose. The treatment of insanity as a
disease, instead of a calamity that cannot be
helped, has revolutionized in the most beneficial
way everything connected with those affected
with mental infirmities. The treatment of
drunkenness in the same way may effect some
what similar results.
Groceries and Confectioneries
NISBET & AXWELL
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, AND HAVE IN STORE,
50 Saks Liverpool Salt,
4 Sacks Old Java Coffee,
2 Boxes Choice Green Tea,
4 Barrels Choice Molasses,
1 Barrel Cider Vinegar,
10 Barrels Coffee Sugar,
Rio Coffee, Crushed and Pulverised Sugar,.
Rice, English Dairy and New York State Cheese,
10 Gross Carolina Belle and 3 Bbls. Lorillard Snuff.
Also, alarge and assorted Stock of Pickles, Jellies,
PrunesV Dates, Ginger Preserves and fresh Fruits,
Flavoring Extracts, Olive Oil, Lemon Syrup, Ground
Cinnamon and Pepper, Tomato Catsup, Pepper
Sauce, Mustard, Sardines, Lobsters and Oysters, a'
superior lot of -
Raisins and French Candy,
1,000 pounds assorted Candy in boxes, 5 barrels as
sorted Nuts, Citron, Cocoanuts and Figs, 250 pounds
fresh Currants, Table Salt, Duryeas' superior Stnrcb,
Parlor and Telegraph Matches, superior lot of Toilet
Soap and Perfumery, Casteel and Turpentine Soap;
Anderson's Solace, teak's and other choice brands
of Chewing Tobacco, Durhanfs and Virginia Smok
ing Tobacco, choice Havana and ' American Segars,
Violins, Banjos, and a large assortment of Toys,
Notions, &c.
In fact everything usually found in a first class
Confectionery and Family Grocery. Persons wish
ing to purchase any of the above articles will find it
to their advantage to give us a call and examine
our Goods before buying elsewhere. We propose
to sell cheap for cash or barter. All orders attended
to with promptness.
April 15, 1867. NISBET &, MAXWELL.
JAM K S S3 A R T Y; & CO,
NEXT DOOR TO THE COURT HOUSE,
Respectfully call the attention of the public to their
Stock of
Dry Goods, Groceries,
Hardware and Cutlery, Crockery, Bocts and Shoes,
Hats, &c. Also, a good ; assortment of Wood and
Willow Ware, Baskets, Tubs, Buckets, Churns,
Children's Carriages, &c.
April 15,1867.. JAMES II ARTY & CO.
13. I?3. Pl&ITCMARDj
PRODUCE AND PROVISION DEALER.
The highest cash prices paid for all kiads of
Produce.
Always oa hand at the lowest prices all kinds of
and Family Supplies.
I have recently resumed business in my own
proper name and shall be thankful to friends and
the public for patronage.
OLD STAND OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.
II. M. PRITCUARD.
Charlotte, N. C , April 15, 1867 3ra
BRENJZER, RELLOGG & PETERS,
ISaiikers and ISrokers,
Trade Street, (Springs' Building,)
.CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Brenizer, Kellogg & Co.,
Greensboro, N.C.
Dealers in Gold, Silver, Bullion, Southern Bank
Notes, Exchange, Bonds, Stocks and Coupons.
Deposits in Currency and Specie received, which
may be drawn for without notice and six per cent
interest allowed.
Certificates of Deposit given payable after three
mouths bearing fiyht per tent interest, available in
all parts of the United State3.
Refer to Brem, Brown & Co., Dr E Nye notcbi
son & Co , Gov Z B Vance, Charlotte, N C; Jesse
II Lindsay, Esq., Greensboro, N C.
April 15, 1S67.
Professional Notice.
DR. I. J SLOAN is about to retire from the
Practice of-Medicine, and takes this opportunity of i
returning thanks for the liberal patronage he ha3 j
received. le uope3 that all persons who are in
debted to him will make immediate settlement by
cash or note, as be needs money. . ,
April 15, 18C7 lmpd . -
State of C'roIinn,?IccfclciiIurs co.
In Equity To Spring Term, 1867.
Herman Wiener vs. H. A B. Emauuel.
It appearing from the affidavit of the plaintiff that
the de.'endanl, B. Emanuel, is a non-resident of the
State, this notice is published in the Western Dem
ocrat, a gazette printed ia the city of Charlotte, in
conformity to law, commanding said B Emanuel to
be and appear at the next term of said Court, on
the Otb Monday after the ih Monday in . February,
1867,, at the Court House ra Charlotte, then and
there to plead, answer or demur to the plaintiffs
kill, otherwise judgment, pro confesso, will be en
tered against him, and a decree made in Jhe premises
accordingly. - .
Witness, mr official ngnattfre, at office in CnaT
lotvAPril :8Tr A' C' WILLIAMSO,- . u. .
WOMAN IN SOCIETY. 7 5
: A large and intelligent congregation assem
bled in Mr Frothingham's church, on Fortieth
street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, -New
York, on Sunday evening, to listen to his dis
course upon "Woman in Society." ' ' "
' Mr Frothingham commenced by saying that
by society be meant the world of opinions and
sentiments which'ia called by that name. The
powers which govern it are secret,' but silently
they are obeyed." -Nothing may resist it. - It
undertakes and. accomplishes, and oonfesses no
responsibility to anything. ' This authority is
fashion. It tells people what to eat and drink
and wear. Now it places a lump of hair on the
back of the neck, then it places it at the back
of the heid. " To day it does one thing, to-morrow
it does something else. The despotism of
fashion touches the mind and morals. Why do
women vasto their time In novel-reading and
street-promenades?' Whydo they encourage
customs that are known to be detrimental to
health and morals? Because fashion decrees it,
and she is in league with fashion. Fashion. is
the woman's world. ' What the speaker com
plained of was that America has no social world
strictly American. Wonien are subjects in
their own world, not queens, aod they get their
orders frm the other side of the Atlantic .The
power of fashion in America is tremendous, but
it is not American power: America' has, there
fore, no social life of its own. None of its fash
ions represent American character or American
ideas. The speaker remembered a lady who
had sought, to effect a reform in this direction.
Her rocms were resorted to by editors, scholars,
and other distinguished persons. " She had
sought to cultivate Jruc beauty and elegance,
and stimulate the, refining forces of-woman's
nature. " Her entertainments were very simple;
but women were women there, although there
was never any display of extravagance. The
chief objection at present is that women of fash
ion have not sufficient intellectual ambition and
culture. It was said last winter that ladies
gave receptions to each other choosing hours
in which gentlemen could not be present. This
showed a lack of confidence that they were ca
pable of pleasing the opposite" sex with their
conversation. According to the last census,
the males were 730,000 in excess of the females
in this country. In California there are three
males to one female; in Washington, four to
one; and in Nevada, eight to one. Surely this
disparity opens a large field to women, and should
be seized. The social condition of women in
this country is affected by the individual inde
pendence we all possess. A slave in the sight
of the law, woman is here a mistress in the sight
of fashion. She is granted a throne in the
world of fashion, in compensation for the wrongs
and oppressions she endures outside . of that
world. There are those who are working for
woman's disfranchisement here. It is demand
ed that she shall have equal social and political
equality with men. This demand that she shall
be admitted to tlie fields of labor seems to be
intended to dethrone her in the norld of fashion
she now rules. As we give to women their
rights, we steal from them their prestige. It is
well that women should work and move in the
world, but here the faculties nourished are those
belonging to men, and we should deplore the
destruction of a world which displays the genius
of woman. There is a home sphere which calls
in requisition all her graces and arts. She has
the immortal power of beauty, and knows it,
and she uses the secrets of dress, the magic of
ring and bracelet and harmonious hues, to en
haoce it. She holds the magic wand of fasci
nation over man, and men bow to it. Why
6hould not American womanhood grasp this
great prerogative? The parlor we have almost
forgotten the use of it. Our feminine loveli
ness is dissipated at the theatre and the ball,
but it is no longer exerted toward bringing the
other sex into the parlor for converse, instruc
tive and profitable to both. Beauty, grace, ele
gance, dress, all these could be exerted, and if
women were to seize their opportunity they
could influence and even control men, and even
influence the political issues far more than by
having the ballot. If women can do so much
when their enthusiasm is aroused, wiry cannot
bey do more in ordinary life? The bright wo
men in Paris terrified Napoleon more than' hos
tile generals. If American women were equally
bright, adroit and intellectual, : they could have
unbounded influence. : They could shut up the
dram-shop, and render the social vice disrepu
table. Women already accomplish much; what
could they not accomplish with discipline and
earnestness? It is a shame to women that a
power so tremendous should be misused. Wo
men should be educated for the parlor as well
as for anything else.
There are enough women reformers and pht-
l .i r . L . 1 i.
lanmropists; ouwaere aru me ..m,rB ..
conversation, in which tnnv arc so formed to ex-i
tnistresscs ol
eel? They should be able to discuss the arts;
they should know what ideas are abroad; so that
it a
tneir eloquence wouia not do expenueu uu
buckles, belts, and slippers. The .crowded
haunts of dissipation crv out asrainst the daTk
1arlr I
and silent parlors; and thousands of young men
are driven into dissipation, . whom the fascina
tions of women might save. .. It is not necessary
that our women should be Temarkable; the
speaker would have them feminine and Amen-
can; and would preserve to them -the world
which they are so fitted to rule. '
Benjamin Franklin, once putting to press a i mention of us, I feel that i$ is my, duty to in-,
form of the Common Prayer, the letter c in the , fyrm the public that Lane's North .Carolina
follow.'ng passage, dropped out, unperceivedby Brigade was there, that it fought on the ex
bim : "We shall all be cbatiged in the twinkling treme left of Loogstreet's line, that it remained
of an eveu" ; When the book appeared to the on the field as long as any other "portion of that
horror of the devoted worshipper, the pa?sae
read: " e frbali all be uanged in tne iwuiKmrg
of an eye,"
ExccMlor
All persons indebted t
ston, deceased, are reqaeste
mediately, and tbose haviar
Estate must, present -Ibem .forthwith, r this
LaceJ'
will be Dleaded in bar oflbeir recovery.
WILLIAMSON WALLACE
' April 15, 186T 3wpd ' Executor
N C TBOOPS AT THE BATTLE OF
: GETTYSBURG. '.
Gen. James H. Lane (at president resident
of Concord, N, C.,) publishes the following
communication:- "... - , j
Mr. Editor: At Mr.''McCabeV book will
doubtlessly be read by a great many Virginians,
and as there is danger of his account of the
third day'a fight at Gettysburg being received
as the correct one, will you, for the sake of truth,
and in justice to the gallant troops from North
Carolina, allow a Virginian, - through onr
columns," to state a few facts relative to that
fight,1 that the public may learn 'that Pickett's
Division, which only arrived in time to display
its bravery in the last of that struggle, are not
the only ''Heroes of Gettysburg."
All know that Gettysburg was carried, on the
first day, by Ewell's corps, and HetVs and Penr
der's Divisions, of A. P. Hill's corps, and that
while the former command entered Gettysburg
on the left, the latter, after a bloody struggle,
carried Seminary Hill on the right. . On the 2d
of July, Pender's Division, composed of Lane's,
Scale's, McGowan's and ThomasV Brigades, ex
tended from the Fairfield road to the right,
along Seminary Hill, in the order mentioned
above; and there was gallant fighting that day
aloug its front, between its sharpshooters and
those of the enemy, for the possession of a road
running between the two lines of battle our
men succeeded in driving the enemy from the
road and held it. It was General. Pender's in
tention to advance that afternoon, bad the at
tack on the right been more successful. ; While
on the right of bis command watching the pro
gress of the fight, our accomplished,- Christian
division commander, who had, won so many
laurels on so many hard fought battle fields,
received his fatal, wound; and the command of
his division devolved upon me, as its senior
Brigadier. .
Late that afternoon I received a, note from
General Ewell complimenting the sharpshooters
of our division for their gallant fighting, and
informing me that ho intended, to attack the
enemy that night, and requesting me to protect
Ramscur's right-r-Hamseur's Brigade being on
the right of, llodc's, Division, which was the
right division of Ewell's corps. As soon as it
was dark, I threw McGowan's Brigade, under
Colonel, afterwards General Pcrrin,and Thomas'
Brigade, from my right, into the road occupied
by the sharpshooters of our division, .that I
might prevent Ewell's right from being turned;
but for reasons unknown to me, the attack was
not made, at least by the right of - Ewell's jine.
Next morning General Lee appeared in front of
my line, reconnoitered the enemy's position, and,
when be was about to leave, he remarked that
'he needed more troops on the right, but that
he did not know where they were to coma from."
Soon after I wars ordered to leave, Thomas and
Perrin to hold the road they were . occupying,
and to move my own brigade and Scales' to the
right, and report to Gen. Longstreet for further
orders. Gen. Longstreet ordered me to form
the rear of the right of Hill's Division, then
commanded by the lamented Pettigrew this
division was on the left of Pickett. ' After. I
had taken this position, Major General Trimble,
who had joined the army from the Valley of
Virginia, relieved me of the command of Pen
der's Division. My position was such as to pre
vent my seeing the first movements of the front
line there being a narrow strip of intervening
woods; but General Thomas, who could see from
his position in the road everything that was
going on, on the left, informed me, the next
day, that Brock enbrougli's Brigade, which was
on the left of Heth's Division, did not advance
further than the road; and that Davis' Brigade,
which was next to it, pushed forward, in ad
vance of the general line, with too much im-
petuosity, and was driven back.
The remaining brigades of Heth's Division
were Peltigrcw's and Archer'; bat it will be
remembered that the greater part of Archer's
Brigade and General Archer himself were cap
tured in the first day'a fight. When General
Trimble .ordered us forward, we advanced and
took position on the left of the troops that were
fighting, and when the right of my brigade was
within a short distance of the stone - fence that
I was used by the enemy lor a breastwork my
brigade was now the extreme left of the attack
ing force one of. General Longst reel's staff
officers came dashing- through a hot fire with
orders from General Longstreet to move my
commaod rapidly to the left, as the enemy. had
thrown out a flanking force in that direction,
which was already pouring a destructive ; fire
into us. On ordering Colonel Avery, of the-Thirty-third
North Carolina, regiment, which
was the left of my command, to face to the left
for the purpose oi meeting this" flanking .column
of the enemy, he replied, "My God 1 General,.
do you intend rushing your : men into-such a
. unsupportcd and when tbe troops oa the
. ... rii- l n , o
rigni
are
falli
back?" Seeing, that it was
useless to sacrifice so many brave men, I ordered
my command oack, and in accordance with or
, f r. T . , a . .
fi , , woun(le(l T refnrmft.1 in rear nf'th nrliT'arv.
. ... ' . ;
I'know too well what it is to be a soldier to
wish to do injustice toany command, and I re
gret fo see that the historians, from my native
State are so very partial to Pickett's Division.
i Tn (bp. mnnv t-.tiVilit anonnnla rf tliA third
daj,g fi M Gettysburg, not an allusion has
been that I am aware of,-to my
brigade and Scale's; "and now. that Mr McCabe
',ne, and that it displayed Jhe same bravery
,nat lt
did at Spottsylvania Courthouse or the
ting or the 3d of July, : poiots I thinkto. the.
.1 tru cause of our failure in that ''afternoon's
assault.
AMES U. L.ASE.
- - - - - lZth-or -May, which called lortb such a compli- i was lett to be openea srtcr nrs aeatri, an to be
' . " r. , mentary notice from General Eafy in bis report I published in tbe townf that tbe cook arid hia
8 lVolicc. ' . X 9l tn3t oa'; and afterwards at Keam sotatiaD,L (tbe muter sj wue naa, Dy cis planning, eiopeo:
ihTstate of j W John- ueQ UeneraJ iee told me that "2 ortn "jarouna imoan oven iwt years sinee, ana Deen Daxeo:
a tn nVr rmvmcnt im- diu cause to oa Droaa ot sncu trooDS . . ueo. i, mai uo wwuiu uv eqi, ria oi mem eisewjso oas
claims raint the said ; Lee s. remark, in front of mv line on the morn- i for the jeering ot the publics therefore be bad -
BUSINESS.
1 Some of the most
astounding .dcvdorKonenU
dcveldr
are being made at the present time in relation to
tbe counterfeiting of bills and money in New York
and Ohio, from which it would seem that in soma
sections of the' country it is oecominjr a regular
i i. .ru.: - i ? ".
urancu vi uuoiuess, as eageny pursuec,anu, wiuim
certain limits, almost as openly as. any other
branch of speculation in the North j or as the
foreign slave trade in the South . or, m Cuba.
Books are published giving full descriptions of
cheap methods of imitating the , precious metala.
AU the tricks of counterfeiters for sweating, Wing,
splitting,' and filling coin are here, detailed with
great exactness, and on payment .offive dollars
any one ha been admitted into one of their circles.
In some section quifo large bodies of -men" bavo
gone into this business as the easiest and most
literal way of making money. OnVr tbe othr
day a Cleveland paper tells us that in Iiat.city a
Methodist minister of high standing was reach
ing a funeral sermon to a crowded cpngregaiori
when the officers of justice arrived, . and at fH
close of the service arrested hira as a counterfeiter.
All the implirnents for carrying on a very .-extent
sive business Of this kind "were found in bis house.
Finally be made a clean breast bfr it before 'the
. wuoie multitude, ana ioiu mem iuai uav.ug ueeu
brought up an engraver, he had during the .last ,
two years become connected with a gang of this
sort, and bad been bard at work manufacturing
fake bank bills on a large' scale. ' ' '
' The question naturally presents itself, what is
going to become of honest men t ' What can
those do who live by buying and selling f The
losses of the retail storekeepers are becomming
every year larger and larger, notwithstanding
counterfeit detectors and every other precaution.
In the East Indies the Kings and Princes have"
cheated so io the coinage that in Burmah every
man. who sells carries his scale and ' weights, and
weighs all bis silver as he receives it; and they
have become excellent judges of the quality of
silver, and can tell how ranch It is adulterated-
But we seem about to have no security that out
coins are what they seem.
Ages before the birth of Chemistry the al-",
chemists were-occupied in seeking some means hy
which all metals might be transmuted into gold
It never seemed to enter into their minds that,
the ultimate effect of all this would, if successful,"
be to transmute gold down in point 5f value arid
importance to the average of other metals. - It is.
6o in all these modern attempts of a baser kind
to counterfeit, instead of transmuting.; -' It is tea
times as injurious to the community as so - much
money abstracted or stolen, or so much lead openly,
mixed with all our coins. The uncertainty, the
time, the risk of buying and selling, makes men'
avoid exchanges, except at much larger profits to"
pay for all this. Unless it be broken up our whole
currency will become depreciated incalculably. r
But there is a worse depreciation than all this
indicated in the extension of counterfeiting op
erations; it if the depreciation of moral character
among men of sufficient mechanical' ingenuity
and intellectual entertainments to render them
most dangerous to the community. , Tbe social
position of many of these operators makes them
doubly dangerous and doubly deleterious. Some
times we build great hopes for the .future of bur
country from the increased education of the mas
ses. But let us not be blind to the fact that mere
intellectual progress, without, proper training ia t
habits of moral and social virtue and conformity.;
to law, will only tend 'mbre rapidly to demoralize
and destroy, rendering' those who possess . these ,
advantages more ingenious, and therefore a more
dangerous race of pickpockets and counter feiterstv
Wrho would wish to seo a razor in the iiand off
. "r . . v. t 1. .i J f t ?ii
every inauman t xeisucu isjtuowieuge auu skiu
to the unprincipled.- ' .. ;.. ,
There are 'times when virtue and. religion eeom.i
to carry their triumphs into the . highest quarters :
of pnblic as well as private life, - so openly and -:
powerfully that all begin to hope a now era ha 1
dawned upbti mankind. But, on the other hand.,
such glimpses 'of life, public arid private, as are..
sometimes seen are not flattering to our progress
in Tlrtue. liie revival of the slave trade in the.
South, and the progress of frauds and counterfeit- :
ing at the North and West, all io defiance oflli .
laws equally of God and man, shows that law as
law has not that power on the public .conscience
1t ought to possess, and must b'j brought to pos t
ess, to insure the perpetuity of a free Government
Unices 'children are instructed, in jhe school-house ;
and at home, that law and riglU are to be ies
pected, that not ingenious merely, but hpnest ana
true ways of making money are alone to be sought
unless specific instructions on the points enter in- ;
to pulpit teaching, the lesson will have to be en
forced in other and sterner me'tno'ds. . The neglect
of education ia not the remedy to- be thought of, ,
but the additional instructions of which we speak ,
are loudly called for. Philadelphia Ledger. t
j . . '
A Mexican Love ,.M y.stjby, Solvkd.
An extraordinary story comes from Mexieo re
lative to flour. It appears that an old miller in '.
that locality had iuvery beautiful ..Toanflr wife.. ..
of wbom he was jealous in the extreme, an 4
took out bis foolagcment of that feeling iq
thwacking the lovely yoorig befog. There was
a certain: cook, of the male species, ' yuog, . -handsome,
and fat, who came to the mill fronj
tbe hotel to bay flour, and hearing the distress
of the lovely one first, nd seeing her second, "
.became, of coarse," 'dreadfolly in love. Some
one told- the 4 miller All the town begs.n t3
talk of the fact,"and to- laugh at the floury one.!".
One day thee cook and ''the lovely young wife
suddeniy "disappeared and merrily .laughed the
Mexicans at the miller's misfortune; nothing,,
went down hut tbe scandal' of the elopement of J
the miller's wife and the cook. "
The miller scowled vebgcfully upon all the
town, and so time passed by; nothing more -was
beard of the cook and the miller's, wifc.br any-
! one - Two years after, the miller was Blessed
I to die. and to miorm the world, In a paper which
ground them up in a large mass of corn, whicq
the towns people were pleased to compliment him "
for as being exceedingly rieh and nutritious.
THE . COUNTERFEITING
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